| Continued: Application of technology to democracy and economy | 2 comments |
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14 Oct 2006 @ 15:15, by Shreepal Singh
Now science has provided the technological capability to make democracy more true to its basic principle. Democracy as it obtains today cannot obstruct for long the far reaching impact of information technology that is now common place. Democracy is theoretically the ideal mechanism of self governance invented by human beings. It is but natural that in the collective living of a group, all individuals may not always agree while taking decisions.
Human beings in their evolutionary history have co-existed for long and devised many forms of dispute-redressing mechanism to ensure their continued comparatively peaceful co-existence. And, now we have a dispute-redressing socio-political engineering that we call democracy. Democracy is a form of human self governance. Its basic principle is the rule of the majority over the minority. In the collective living of human beings there are always recurring moments when they are required to take collective decisions, and often, momentous decisions. While taking decisions, the unanimity of decision makers is ideal but almost always elusive. And, therefore, the next best thing possible is to take decisions by majority of the decision makers. Taking decisions by majority that bind majority and minority both is democracy.
It is natural that the minority, which did not agree to the majority view but found a much disliked-decision imposed on it by the operation of majority rule, would search for some loopholes to thwart and diminish the impact of the unpleasant majority decision. We are not talking here of the mundane routine scandalous politics that intermittently occur in democratic countries. We are up for serious things here.
The crux is that on crucial economic issues that vitally affect human beings in their collective living, the majority must find benefit in the decision that is taken by the majority notwithstanding the opposition of the minority. However, we find that in economic matters the minority is rich to the detriment of the majority who are poor. This is impeccable proof that here democracy, the rule of the majority, has been thwarted by whoever got illegitimate benefits and by whatever means.
We must purify democracy by the application of science. We are not against anybody. We hold that human beings are mere instruments of forces that guide the course of events, at micro and macro scale in this grand universe.
We stand for the truly majority rule and surely the majority would benefit by its own rule in economic matters in contradistinction to the benefit of minority. The minority has usurped machine, that saves human labor, from the hands of majority and yoked it in their own selfish service by rendering millions jobless. The minority monopolizes machine so that it may earn private profit by the work of machine with the less human labor needed. The minority has become rich and the majority has been reduced to poverty, though this majority is still flaunted as rulers. In the rule of majority, the majority cannot be poor and minority rich. It is distorted democracy. The science has come, as ever, to play its redeeming role to change the things in a forward movement.
How the science can be applied to democracy? We elect our representatives for a fixed term. They represent us for this term. We need the application of available technology on this issue in two ways. Firstly, the initial electoral process is presently much influenced by artificial means. The objective image of prospective representative is allowed to be bolstered by lobbying forces. This bolstering needs money that is not sufficiently available with the majority of population and their true aspiring representative is rendered disadvantaged. This could not be helped yesterday; today it can be remedied. The voting must be done only through the suitable device of information technology and without any role for the intervening economic forces in any manner.
It is possible. And, it must be done to redeem democracy from the hands of minority and accumulated money. Secondly, we must employ the information technology once again to constantly approve or disapprove our initially elected representative. Of course, we need stability of the term of representation. Also, our representatives need insulation from momentary passions of the electorates who may disapprove leader’s unpopular decisions under the heat of the moment but may later on approve them on their cool calculations.
These are some of the problems that the technology enabled true democracy would have to resolve. There may be fixed a critical approval index below which a representative must quit. However, the technology should be used to constantly elect our representatives. Our leaders should be our representatives and they should be so at every moment. There cannot be anything like fixed secured term in true democracy. The fixed or secured term must be provided only to offset the undesirable impact on the cool decisions of our representatives. In fact, the real remedy of this problem lies in educating and enlightening our people and not allowing our representatives to continue despite electorate’s disapproval. Theoretically, the electorates know their interest best and the elected cannot continue in the face of disapproval by their electorates.
For the democracy to become true today, the application of technology is necessary. For a democracy to become vibrant and healthy, it is necessary that its citizens should be educated, informed, empowered and enlightened.
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14 Oct 2006 @ 17:00 by Martha @24.205.78.133 : Democracy or Republic
A democracy is laws set up to please the majority often reflecting the lowest common energy of the masses. A Republic is a set of guidelines that one tries to live up to and honor. Big difference. I would rather live in a republic.
Secondly and more importantly a democracy or republic is only as good as the people that live in those societies. TRUE change can only come about on an individual level FIRST before it is reflected out into the democracy or republic. The change can occur no other way. It is by lifting the consciousness of each person that change will come and not by making rules. While I don't necessarily disagree with what you have written above, I do know that the answer is NOT with the logicial or science mindset but instead with working with the intuitive side we all have and using that energy to shift oneself and then the world. That is the challenge now on earth.
15 Oct 2006 @ 08:49 by shreepal : Intuitive light and economics of greed
Legally speaking, democracy is a form of government where the supreme power lies with the people and a democratic state is often called a republic. It is absolutely correct that such government is only as good as the people who live there. Again you rightly pointed out that the answer lies in working with the intuitive side we all possess. It is necessary to use this positive energy to shift oneself and then the world.
Really, that is the challenge the earth is facing today. If one is able to shift himself or herself with this intuitive energy, he or she would be a changed person. Such a person would not fire the workforce and press into service an automatic machine that is able to do the work in its place simply in order to earn more private profits. Persons guided by the intuitive energy would not like to accumulate money more than they reasonablly need. Recall Lord Jesus words in this context.
If there are people guided by their intuitive energy and they form a government, they would not opt for an economic system that allows earning profits and in the process renders a large number of human beings unemployed.
Machine is a benevolent tool that allows more rest and leisure to human beings in their struggle to secure life's necessities, if this tool is dedicated to their service and this tool becomes malevolent, if it is dedicated in the service of accumulating profits - or more and more money.
Let there be shifting from oneself, let persons be guided by intutive energy, let there be an economic system where machine is used to reduce the working hours - nay, working minutes - of mankind and not to accumulate more and more money.
There is antipathy between the intuitive force and the greedy desires. Where the greed reigns, the intuitive divine light does not enter and where the intuitive light reigns, the greed does not dare to enter.
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